This way you don't need to upcast a node to eg JavaNode in order to call the next method to delegate: ```java visit((JavaNode) node, data) -> visitJavaNode(node, data) ``` This prevents writing `visit(node, data)` and not being sure what overload is called.
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PMD is a source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth. It supports Java, JavaScript, Salesforce.com Apex and Visualforce, Modelica, PLSQL, Apache Velocity, XML, XSL, Scala.
Additionally it includes CPD, the copy-paste-detector. CPD finds duplicated code in C/C++, C#, Dart, Fortran, Go, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Kotlin, Lua, Matlab, Modelica, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, PLSQL, Python, Ruby, Salesforce.com Apex, Scala, Swift, Visualforce and XML.
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- I got this error, why? -- Ask a question on StackOverflow.
- I got this error and I'm sure it's a bug -- file an issue.
- I have an idea/request/question -- file an issue.
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- Where's your documentation? -- https://pmd.github.io/latest/
Source
Our latest source of PMD can be found on GitHub. Fork us!
The rule designer is developed over at pmd/pmd-designer. Please see its README for developer documentation.
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